I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, specializing in American political behavior. My research interests include political behavior, race and ethnicity politics, and economic inequality.

My dissertation, entitled "The New Democrats: On the Social Roots of Asian American Partisan Political Behavior" explores why Asian Americans, a group with some Republican predispositions, vote for Democrats in national elections. This research considers existing theories, and develops a novel theory of what I label “social transmission,” grounded in partisan influence from peers in local contexts. This theoretical perspective is motivated by the fact that traditional theories of familial socialization are a poor fit for immigrant households, in which American politics is rarely discussed.

I am also working on several collaborative research projects on topics such as income inequality and the college experience and Puerto Rican political mobilization. My research has recently been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities.

At Princeton, I am a technical research consultant for Princeton Research in Experimental Social Science (PRESS) and a graduate student affiliate of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP). I also have served as an Assistant Instructor for undergraduate courses in quantitative methods, experimental methods, and American politics.

Prior to arriving at Princeton, I graduated with a BA in Political Science (minors in Applied Statistics and Sociocultural Anthropology) from the University of Michigan in 2014, with highest honors and highest distinction. While at Michigan, I wrote a senior thesis under the advisement of Professor Nicholas Valentino about the priming effects of Spanish-language political advertising on US Hispanic voters. As an undergraduate student, I worked in Washington DC as a Congressional Intern for US Representative Rush Holt (2012) and US Senator Frank Lautenberg (2013). I am a member of Phi Beta Kappa.